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Newsletter Term 1 Issue 10 “Challenge Explore Flourish Together” 18th November 2020

Congratulations to the following children who have gained the following awards:-

Silver: Ollie Janes George Horrocks Finn Preece

Bronze: Kaelem Channon Thomas Jenkins Ruby Harris Monty Thomas Harvie Garnsworthy Jack Towler-Williams Zack Warren Dylan Deprieelle Freya Woodman Oscar Egerton-Smith Pippa Chanin Spencer Davey Ethan Radmore Molly Hill Toby Lampey Perry Hanby Millie Pring

Pupil of the Week Class 1 Emma Cross Class 2 Isaac Weston Class 3 Imogen Force Class 4 Thomas Jenkins Class 5 Jake Buchanan

Breakfast and After School Club Pupil of the Week

Finlay Hanby

Awards

Term Dates - 2021/2022

A copy of our 2021/2022 term dates are available on our school website via:

http://bickleighschool.co.uk/school-info/

Nutritious breaktime snacks are im-portant for the children to ensure that they are including essential nu-trients in their daily diet and also top-ping up their energy levels - helping pupils to engage in their learning.

Should your child require additional refuelling throughout the day, please feel free to provide them with a morning and afternoon snack!

Most pupils will happily eat fruit at breaktime but, in addition to this, feel free to consider other snacks such as pitta bread slices / bread sticks, oat cakes/rice cakes or cheese / ham.

Energy Levels

Please note that Primary School Admissions open on 15th November 2020 for parents to apply for Reception places for September 2021.

Primary School Admission - 2021

Children in Need and World Diabetes Day

Thank you for donating to these two worthy chari-ties last Friday; a grand total of £250 was collected which will be split between them.

Due to ongoing restrictions, we are limiting items that come into and out of school. If your child would like to exchange Christmas cards this year, please bring them to school in a bag so that we can quarantine them for before they are given out.

Please remind your child to give them straight to a member of staff from their class and not hand out to friends!

Christmas Cards (from Monday 30th November)

Class 1 have been learning about Diwali - the Fes-tival of Lights. We made salt dough Diva Lamps, rangoli patterns, lanterns and tasted barfi. We learnt all about the story of Rama and Sita and how good triumphed over evil.

We particularly enjoyed Hanuman the Monkey King and Ravanna the 10-headed and 20-armed Demon King! We loved acting out the story and everyone wanted to be those characters!

Class 1 News

Easy fundraising via online shopping With Christmas online shopping now in full swing don't forget, you can help raise funds for our school when shopping online. Please sign up to these great sites it's totally free with no strings attached and every penny raised goes to the school. For example Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases. Easy fundrais-ing: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/bickleighonexesch/?q=Bickleigh&cat=cause-autosuggest [select Bickleigh on Exe C E Primary School – Devon] Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=%2F [select Bickleigh School Association]

Online Christmas Fair Please check out our dedicated Facebook page for some ideas and inspiration for some early Christ-mas shopping: https://www.facebook.com/groups/327766974988592. Please also share amongst local groups you are in. We are still looking for vendors, if you or someone you know might be interested please ask them to email us.

Santa Sacks available online The online shop for Santa sacks is now up and running again. If you are in need of a personalised Santa sack check out these 16 festive designs to choose from. The deadline for ordering is Friday 4 December. £12 per sack. https://sforders.co.uk/lMZ26QHLc

Christmas cards, mugs and labels Thank you to everyone who has placed an order. We anticipate they should be sent home with chil-dren the week of 30th November. If you would prefer to collect your order please contact the BSA so that we can arrange this.

Scarecrow in the hedgerow! To bring some festive cheer we are organising a ‘Scarecrow in the Hedgerow’. Create a Christmas-themed scarecrow, name it using the BSA tem-plate, take a picture and send to us for the Face-book page. We are hoping to have one for every day of advent. Anyone and everyone can take part. Not sure how to make a scarecrow? Check out this You Tube video for guidance! 12 days and counting until 1st December!

Contact Us: E-mail: bickleighschoolassociation@gmail.com

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/BickleighBSA

BSA News

COOMBE FARM FREE RANGE OVEN READY POULTRY

Turkeys £3.20 per lb Geese £4.50 per lb Chicken £2.00 per lb Duck £3.00 per lb

Please contact Mary Curtis - 01884 855337 or 07855 416369

Off cuts of SOFT wood - no hard wood please as we are not strong enough to hammer nails into it!

Junk modelling items - in a large tied bag so we can quarantine it for the recommended time.

Plastic and metal lids or corks, old envelopes/ note pads/writing paper/diaries - anything we can draw and write on in our play.

Class 1 - requests for random items!

Below you will see a link to our proposed admis-sions policy for 2022-23. We are consulting on this between 1 November and 8 January and invite any parent or other person with an interest in our ad-mission arrangements to read the policy and make any comments you wish. You will see where there are changes, the text is in red – either something we propose to add or, if it has a line through it, something we propose to remove.

One of the proposals is to add children who have been adopted from state care outside of England to our oversubscription criterion 1. This is in antici-pation that the Department for Education will re-quire this change for all schools as it has just con-sulted on changes to the School Admissions Code. It is possible that the Department’s timescales may mean that the Code is not amended before the end of February, when we have to formally set our policy. If that is the case, we may have to deter-mine our policy without that change and then alter it later in spring or summer. We are bringing it to your attention though as a change in policy that we expect to have to introduce.

Other than changes in red and dates moving for-ward a year, the way our policy will work is the same as in the previous year, 2021-22.

If you have any comments, please send them to bickleigh@ventrus.org.uk. Further information is at www.devon.gov.uk/admissionarrangements. You will be able to view the proposed policies for all state-funded schools in Devon and the Local Authorities policies there too.

The consultation ends on 8 January and all policies must be determined by 28 February and published in the same places by 15 March.

http://bickleighschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2022-Bickleigh-on-Exe-

admissions-policy-Proposed.pdf

Consultation on our Admissions policy for 2022-23